Dumfries is ready to host two main curling tournaments within the subsequent 10 months.
The World Curling Federation introduced the Ice Bowl will function the venue for a World Blended Doubles qualifier in December and the European Curling Championships C-Division in April 2023.
Will probably be fifth and sixth main curling tournaments to be hosted within the city since 2014. The ice rink has additionally hosted seven worldwide ice hockey tournaments as Dumfries continues to construct its repute for elite degree competitions.
World Curling Federation President, Kate Caithness, mentioned: “We're wanting ahead to taking our World Blended Doubles qualification occasion and the European Curling Championships C-Division subsequent season.
“Having hosted the very profitable World Blended Doubles Curling Championship and the World Senior Curling Championships in 2014, I’m in little question that the native organising committee will as soon as extra step on top of things and show to be a wonderful host.”
The blended doubles occasion will happen from 3–7 December 2022, whereas the European C-Division will run from 29 April–6 Could 2023.
In 2014, it hosted the World Blended Doubles Curling Championship and the World Senior Curling Championships. In February 2022, the ladies’s and males’s Scottish curling championships had been held within the facility.
The Dumfries Ice Bowl is dwelling to Olympic silver medallists Grant Hardie and Ross Whyte, Scottish ladies’s champion Sophie Jackson and world junior champions Scott Hyslop and Jack Carrick.
“We consider these occasions will showcase curling in our area once more and produce the next degree of consciousness to the game regionally, encourage our subsequent technology of curlers and produce the local people collectively to ship these nice occasions.”